Tuesday 25 March 1662

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• N vicenzo on Sat 26 Mar 2005, 02:41am

  Lady day: all bills to be settled, otherwise one of the debter rest houses, be a waiting. Accommodations be nice, simple, no extras, except with large dollop of silver of the realm.

• N vicenzo on Sat 26 Mar 2005, 03:37am

  the state of problems - Jamaica Saturday, July 30th, 1659; Afternoon.
  Jamaica
  a snippet from earlier days [time might change the elements but the cogs of power do grind on so]
  “…
  Abstracts of Letters received from Jamaica, from the Commander in Chief; dated the Twentieth of April 1659.
  Advertiseth, “That the Supplies of the Diamond came very seasonably; and were immediately taken out of the Victuallers, and put on board the Ships at Jamaica, which were then destitute of Provisions; and then sent them forth, to interrupt the Trade that is driven by the Spaniards between Carraccas and Carasao; and to get some Prize; which he almost despairs of in regard of the Dawbing there is between the Dutch and Spaniards:
  That the State’s Frigates are in continual Want of Cordage, Pitch, Tallow, and all other Stores; as also of Shallops; which they greatly need; being of constant Use to carry Water and other Provisions to the Fortifications:…” this before the famous ‘Governer’ M
  

• N A. De Araujo on Sat 26 Mar 2005, 11:50am

  Shallops
  middle french: chaloupe
  1-a usually 2-masted ship with lugsails
  2-a small open boat propelled by oars or sails and used chiefly in shallow waters.
  cf merriam webster on line

• N Stolzi on Sat 26 Mar 2005, 02:11pm

  Dawbing?

  Has the meaning “to put on a false show” - example from 1716

• N A. Hamilton on Sat 26 Mar 2005, 06:39pm

  Wanted

  We get glimpses of fleets preparing for voyages to the East Indies and West Indies and Portugal, etc. It would be of some interest to be able to fill in this background, and get a sense of by whom and how & when the decisions were made to send fleets, and to build ships for these fleets, and to outfit these voyages, and to find captians and crews, and what role Pepys played in executing these orders, and how long it took between decision and sailing, etc.

• N vicenzo on Sat 26 Mar 2005, 08:04pm

  The merchants of the city request that they be defended against the bad guys [other merchants and Pyrates] of the Sea and those that seek revenge of the English Buccaneers. That request is sifted by the various councils [councills] as found on the Parliament site:[ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16798&strquery=carteret%201660 ] {{Like Carteret be one, so over an oyster he tells his fellow members , yep I will tell that Pepys fella ” get that olde wreck up and running, fully provissioned”, }}
  see this list of buddies [Commissioners]
  http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16798&strquery=carteret%201660#s3

  Plantations
  http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16799

• N vicenzo on Tue 29 Mar 2005, 07:09pm

  I found this sentence most facinating:”…I sat in my closet drawing letters and other businesses - …” drawing letters , ?? Doodling or elaborating his Capit[o]ls:
  re: how to write: i.e. penmanship
  make ink , make pen , find paper. get pen-knife and sit correctly, no slouching then pen away:
  http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/writing.html

• N Peter on Tue 29 Mar 2005, 10:29pm

  Vincent… “Drawing letters”…I imagine the usage survives in the sense of a “first draft” etc.

• N language hat on Wed 30 Mar 2005, 03:15pm